February 27, 2011
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The Daily News
1 So...Duke Snider walks into a bar...
2 Baseball legend, folks, and a Dodger. AND a Giant.
3 Snider was the man, and was famous for being overshadowed by the Yankees Mickey Mantle, and the Giants' Willie Mays.
4 Good company.
5 Sad times, but good memories, no matter who you are as a baseball fan.
6 Speaking of which, I finally tore the cellophane off my Giants' World Series DVD set, and had an interesting time this past week watching the Giants' rise to dominance in baseball, at the same time enjoying their Cactus League games.
7 Great stuff, and I'm looking forward to the Giants' new season. These guys were underrated all last year, and I already feel that they are being underrated once again.
8 Can't wait. I would have enjoyed it much more were it not for the snow and blizzards.
9 Moving on, Part the First: I would officially love to welcome into this world Jennalyn Eve Ponticelli, the beautiful baby of Kenny and Vicky. I had the blessed honor of seeing her this past week, and let me tell you, she's a beaut!
10 Congrats to the entire Ponticelli fam, who have been through it this past couple of weeks.
11 Something real for all of us to enjoy to the utmost.
12 Love you guys!
13 Fun stuff, and a huge smile. Jennalyn's, that is, and I don't care what they say, newborns can smile.
14 Haha, just lovin' it!
15 Moving on, Part the Second: Once again, I couldn't care less about the Academy Awards.
16 Seems like every year I have to put in my two cents about that.
17 Until they start making awards for people who are awesome at normal jobs, I can't relate.
18 It's just me.
19 Everywhere on this planet there are awesome people doing awesome work. Just because they are not famous, nor pretty, or whatevz, doesn't mean they are not appreciated.
20 So this one goes out to the ones I love.
22 And that would clearly mean everybody who has to go to work on a daily basis, and everybody who gives their all to making the world a better place. It also goes out to the students out there who work until their heads turn into bowling balls. Someone knows what you're going through. Someone appreciates the super-human efforts to keep the world relatively smart.
23 Moving on, Part the Third: That being said, I would like to give major props to Christian Pizzirani for the success of his film Polar Opposites, which won the SF 48 Go Green Audience Choice Award. Written by Christian and Jason Salazar, the short film had Christian playing a delightful character named Marcus Johnson, who get to know both Earth and Mother Nature, who aren't exactly perfect roommates. Fun stuff with a nice message. Congrats to the entire crew for putting this piece together in just 48 hours. Hope to see more soon!
24 Moving on, Part the Fourth: Some virus crawled into my laptop last week, and it became literally a piece of lead. Once I saw that it was gone, I took it in to Best Buy, where this Geek Squad dude named Steven took a look, and said he'd personally take care of it for me.
25 I don't even USE the thing except for goofing on Facebook and investigating conspiracies, but this guy was an award winner.
26 He was frank, nice, and took that entire deal on for me.
27 Best Non-Actor in a Non-important Sitch.
28 Where's THAT one?
29 AnywayZ I would give THAT guy an award for working hard and being cool.
30 Moving on, Part Five: So let's see. I looked in the mirror yesterday and saw that my face and arms had tanned during the snow blizzards that everyone was all crazed about. I deliberately wore shorts and sat outside in the sun listening to baseball, just to be obnoxious.
31 You know how you get. We all have our egos.
32 Of course, I also got my hubris award last week as well. I had gone out to the yard when it was raining, because I needed to pick a lemon off my lemon tree while cooking dinner.
33 On the way back into the house, my foot turned, I slipped in a puddle, and crashed, cutting a Cheshire Moon cut into my forehead. My head looks like Venus and the Cheshire Moon this morning.
34 It was a harrible experience. Because it was a head injury, it bled profusely. The rain washed it down my face so that I looked like something like a cross between Pulp FIction and Carrie, if you remember those beauts.
35 It's a small cut, but will require a Band-Aid and a hat the rest of the week.
36 Oy.
37 I hit hard too. Had to ice it down and keep it from turning into a cartoon bump.
38 Fortunately, I still have my sense of humor, because anything remotely pretty about me has finally bit the dust.
39 Ah, vanity.
40 Ah, vilderness.
41 So we're back in business over here on the educational front. Fun week, overall, but still had to do a bunch of school stuff. Happens.
42 Anyway, if you have Spring fever, then so do I. It's essentially March already, and we're done in May.
43 So strange.
44 Well, hope you all have a wonderful Monday. Baseball is already back, lawns are mowed, and the weather relatively pleasant. March and April are two of the prettiest months of the year.
45 Enjoy your Monday, and as always, and fly low.
46 Peace.
~H~
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